Both investment have similar risks but
different advantages and disadvantages.

Real Estate Brokers & Agents in Tawau

Tawau terrace house pricing
Tawau tops the basic terrace house prices in Sabah according to the National
Property Information Centre (NAPIC), Malaysia

Terrace houses are the most affordable landed property for those who eschew
strata properties like flats or apartments.

The reason for this could possibly be that the 6,125 sq. km. Tawau district is
flushed with profits from the agriculture and plantation industries in Sabah’s
Agriculture Belt that stretches from Sandakan in the north to Tawau in the
south.

Tawau is also home to many Malaysian and foreign migrants living in rented homes
with a population density of 40/km˛.

The total population of Tawau averages 474,728 persons or about half a million
with males outnumbering females by 259,368 to 215,360. The unofficial figures
could be higher.

Investors from West Malaysia are increasing demand for oil palm land prices by
40 percent given the current commodity prices and the lack in the availability
of lands.
The highest transacted price is around RM46,500 per acre.

Some narrow low cost terrace houses are selling on the secondary market above
RM90,000. Medium cost housing are priced around the RM300,000 bracket.

What is unique about Tawau is its volcanic soil and happy blue fin tuna hunting
deep sea grounds that even attracted Japanese agrarian and fishing settlers
before WWII.

The Chartered Company was into logging, cultivating tobacco, cocoa, coconut
rubber, hemp, jute, and fisheries.

Today Tawau boasts one of the highest concentrations of noveau riche with acres
of crops even in Indonesian Kalimantan as its new hinterland with the
exploitation of cheap migrant labour.

The first shipment of migrant labourers from Malaya to North Borneo was also
destined for Tawau’s plantations.

Today Indonesians dominate the labour scene.

Kalimantan is set to prosper from plantation like never before.
Sabah can share in its development or lose out when it becomes a competition.

No other town in Sabah is better positioned than Tawau to share in the
prosperity of Indonesian Kalimantan by being useful to the southern part of
Borneo including green efforts like the Heart of Borneo conservation project.

Today Indonesians and Filipinos mingle with locals and other Malaysians to make
Tawau the most attractive border town for Kalimantan and Southern Philippines
commerce.

Wealth from the lands and entrepreneurship have forged much affordability for
the finer things in life and the ensuring purchasing power also has made a mark
in the real estate sector to push Tawau’s property market for lands and
buildings to skyrocket in Sabah.

The lustre of Labuan and Sandakan as barter trade centres does not match that of
Tawau’s growing cross border trade in variety and volume with the completion of
new highways from Keningau and Sipitang linking Tawau nearer with the Pan Borneo
Highway and Brunei with Sarawak.

Tawau town is set to be an important city in the future given its close
proximity to growth satellites Lahad Datu and Semporna whose population also
frequent Tawau for various transactions and occasional direct flights to Kuala
Lumpur.

Commercial real estate properties are designed for
businesses large and small.

Commercial real estate in Tawau may be comprised of
office space or quality commercial and industrial properties, and also
properties such as car parks, etc.
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